Voting rights groups and local officials welcomed the US supreme court decision on Monday to keep a new United States Postal Service rule from being implemented before the midterm elections.
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"The Clarity Act is right in front of us and this moment won’t come along again for years," Lummis said in a post on X. This past year, the Senate has been trying to advance its version of the Clarity Act, which would regulate the crypto industry for the first time comprehensively at the federal level, giving the…
"CoinDesk is optimistic heading into Tuesday’s vote and deeply grateful to the senators in both parties who have stayed at the table and worked through difficult issues in good faith," Blockchain Association CEO Summer Mersinger said .
The biggest U.S. hyperscalers are expected to spend upwards of $800 billion this year and more than $1 trillion in 2027, according to estimates in Bitcoin Suisse’s Crypto Wealth Management Report 2026.
OpenAI has asked members of Congress whether rival AI companies could legally agree to slow development, as its chief scientist urges the industry to establish shared safety standards.
The bankruptcy of the cryptocurrency ATM sector’s largest provider has opened the door for smaller firms to snap up their defunct kiosks for pennies on the dollar.
Internet commerce giant PayPal PYPL $ 52.20 · Market Closed extended its blockchain-based stablecoin effort to include a custom stablecoin developer platform, dubbed PYUSDx, built with the help of fiat-pegged token specialist M0 and crypto payments firm MoonPay, the companies said on Tuesday.
The Windows biz has solicited feedback to refine its Humanist AI Code of Conduct [PDF], with the expectation of applying the guidelines to model development next year. "This Code of Conduct is motivated by a single overriding objective: that humans must retain meaningful control over AI so that it can help people live…
Bloomberg's Shery Ahn and Haidi Stroud-Watts break down how President Donald Trump's rejection of artificial intelligence safety guardrails coincides with a sharp selloff across semiconductor stocks. They also examine the regulatory…
ANZ Group Holdings Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Nuno Matos warned about unpredictable risks linked to artificial intelligence and declined to rule out large-scale job cuts at the bank as it adopts the quickly evolving technology.
President Donald Trump’s opposition to guardrails on artificial intelligence puts him at odds with a growing number of lawmakers from both parties, with AI safety fears adding to voters’ misgivings about the technology heading into the….
Manulife Investment Management Head of Multi-Asset Solutions Marc Franklin argues that the recent AI stock pullback reflects debates surrounding regulatory guardrails and development pace rather than structural growth damage. He stresses…
Jensen Huang made headlines Monday at the All-In conference in L.A. for what he said. Taking a live call from President Trump on stage, Huang, dressed in his now-signature alligator leather jacket, was handed Apple’s new foldable phone to answer it, a device that isn’t due to hit stores for another five weeks.
Children in China are embracing the trend of consuming “homework” made from rice paper as a way to alleviate their heavy study burdens, raising concerns regarding food safety. On China’s e-commerce platforms, these edible workbooks are priced at less than 0.50 yuan (7.5.
“The Verge also don’t want more performance to come at a significant cost to power efficiency and battery life,” Griffais told me in 2023, saying he wanted to see a “leap” instead — but suggesting that leap might not be physically possible for another couple of years.
Voting rights groups and local officials welcomed the US supreme court decision on Monday to keep a new United States Postal Service rule from being implemented before the midterm elections.
Al Green (D-Texas) is facing swift and intense anger from his Democratic colleagues after announcing plans to force a vote to impeach President Trump this week.
Republican Senator Mitch McConnell returned to the Capitol on Monday after a three-month absence spent recuperating from a fall in his Washington home that had raised questions about his fitness to serve in Congress.
Hong Kong leader John Lee Ka-chiu’s coming policy address will introduce measures to remove hurdles for businesses setting up shop in the Northern Metropolis and include proactive initiatives to strengthen innovation hubs, research efforts and tech applications, the South China Morning Post has learned.
President Donald Trump said Monday that his presidency provides the guardrails artificial intelligence needs, attacking Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and alleging a conspiracy against AI and data centers.
“Avoiding these two threats requires walking a narrow middle path; for example, one country could gain too much power,” he wrote. In a separate post, Altman said American AI companies must give the public confidence that they will develop increasingly capable systems responsibly as progress accelerates.
The president had previously ducked some of these uncomfortable questions. Sunday's exchange marks the first time he's staked out a personal view, coming days after the September 8 deadline Hawley set for Flock to turn over its internal documents.
Microsoft AI published a draft Code of Conduct on Monday governing how its own AI models are meant to behave, according to an announcement from CEO Mustafa Suleyman on X.
The growing calls for an AI slowdown, many of which coming from within the industry itself, are sending shockwaves throughout the market, sinking AI-related stocks.
China leads the world in churning out humanoid robots and four-legged robot dogs that also happen to be the most affordable on the market—and Unitree Robotics’ founder Wang Xingxing is arguably one of the people most responsible for that Chinese lead.
Almost 150 politicians across Europe have been included on harmful deepfake pornography websites over the last few years, according to new research seen by WIRED.
Since launching on July 1, Robinhood Chain's TVL has already climbed to nearly $1 billion. Palmer set to answer common investor questions he's received since initiating a "buy" rating and $170 price target on Robinhood's stock.
India’s securities regulator has launched a pilot that places corporate bonds and their cash settlement on linked digital rails, moving ₹1,025 crore through the first three issuances while preserving the securities’ existing legal and economic terms.
The 24-year-old makeup artist, who caters to brides and bridal parties among others in Lagos, had never hired anyone before. With her business growing and Ogunmuyiwa stepping into content creation to promote her services, she knew she needed to hire help.
A U.S. government watchdog released its first report on the impact of the Iran war on Monday, acknowledging the military’s advanced weapons shortfalls and offering the first public look at the damage to American aircraft, bases and diplomatic outposts in the Middle East.
"The Clarity Act is right in front of us and this moment won’t come along again for years," Lummis said in a post on X. This past year, the Senate has been trying to advance its version of the Clarity Act, which would regulate the crypto industry for the first time comprehensively at the federal level, giving the…
The latest proposal would also let the Treasury restrict stablecoin rewards if they cause substantial withdrawals from community banks. Banking groups argue those payments could draw away deposits used for lending, while crypto advocates want rewards preserved.
A bipartisan group of state attorneys general called on the U.S. Senate to protect states' ability to police crypto in the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act in a new letter Monday, and the state officials urged lawmakers to vote no on the bill without any changes.
Among the changes, the latest version gives state attorneys general a role in enforcing conflict-of-interest rules for public officials. This had become a major sticking point among some Democrats given President Donald Trump's vast crypto wealth, which has grown to hundreds of millions of dollars linked to World…
See ya’ll next week! Tokenized equities lead RWA inflows as the market recovers; Binance's bStocks hit ~$118.5M in two months, now #2 issuer and ~90% of on-chain equity DEX volume.
Circle's reported $400 million acquisition of Singapore-based Tazapay is shaping up to be an emerging-market play, giving the USDC issuer local payment rails that can take years to build.
An AI researcher who quit Anthropic told the BBC that people working on the technology are "genuinely frightened" about the speed of its advancements and what it could mean for humanity.
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Mexican authorities raided a covert crypto mining operation in Puebla, where they found hundreds of GPU chips in a remote mountain community, Saturday.
Intel has reversed its decision to shelve its open-source font project designed specifically with developers in mind. The font’s GitHub repository was archived earlier this week, only for the company to reportedly restore the project and potentially continue to maintain it.
At Apple’s recent hardware event, the software powering its foldable iPhone Duo stood out, with translucent Liquid Glass effects and vertically stacked icons.
On the floor at Lockheed Martin's production facility in Camden, Arkansas, Tim Cahill, head of the company's missile division, showed "Sunday Morning" the latest model of the Patriot air defense missile, a state-of-the-art weapon designed to shoot down the deadliest of threats: an incoming ballistic missile.
President Donald Trump’s proposal to send $5,000 to every American adult if his Republican Party maintains control of the House and Senate in the November election needs congressional approval, House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday, while pledging to try to make it happen.
The intrigue: The recent spikes have taken place in spite of interventions by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to try to smooth turbulent bond markets — efforts that haven't succeeded in making borrowing cheaper.
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with environmentalist, Bill McKibben, and public relations specialist, Frank Maisano, about opposition to industrial development projects like fracking and data centers.
President Donald Trump said Sunday that he will look into requests from families of Sept. 11 victims to release records that could shed light on Saudi Arabia’s alleged role in the attacks 25 years ago.
President Trump stood by his support for a united Ireland on Sunday after his remarks during a two-day visit sparked a backlash from unionist and British politicians and praise from Irish nationalists.
Trump’s apparent surprise announcement at the conclusion of the tournament was met with loud whistling and cheers from the crowd of spectators. In May, the Irish Whiskey Association called for the tariffs to be removed, arguing that such a step would help many U.S. companies with Irish products in their portfolios and…
A projectile strike on a vessel in the world's most critical oil chokepoint adds to months of escalating disruptions that have cratered shipping traffic and pushed Brent crude past $100.
That may impact regional diplomatic dynamics, Iranian official Masoud Pezeshkian declared that Iran is not at war with Saudi Arabia. This announcement comes amid ongoing efforts to maintain and strengthen the détente between the two nations since their diplomatic relations were restored in 2023.
"CoinDesk is optimistic heading into Tuesday’s vote and deeply grateful to the senators in both parties who have stayed at the table and worked through difficult issues in good faith," Blockchain Association CEO Summer Mersinger said .
Coinbase’s new partnership with payments platform Moov gives community banks and credit unions a route to offer stablecoin services through the financial relationship they already have with businesses.
The biggest U.S. hyperscalers are expected to spend upwards of $800 billion this year and more than $1 trillion in 2027, according to estimates in Bitcoin Suisse’s Crypto Wealth Management Report 2026.
“I think that, given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public, and CoinDesk don’t feel pressure on that,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Fortune. “CoinDesk got a lot of stuff to do, like meeting this moment of what is going to be required for safety and alignment, and how the industry…
Ripple, the financial services firm closely associated with the XRP Ledger (XRP) blockchain, is looking to corporate treasurers to drive the next leg of growth for its Ripple USD RLUSD $ 1.0025 stablecoin, eyeing a customer base that handles roughly $13 trillion in transactions annually.
Why it matters: Even modest shifts away from the U.S. could chip away at advantages that have helped sustain American economic and geopolitical power for decades. Driving the news: The Netherlands moved 86 tons of gold out of the U.S. and Canada last week, citing the move as a hedge against "extreme systemic risks."…
Despite this, Nvidia contends the deal is a great American success story. “The Groq story is a prime example of the American system working as designed to promote innovation, reward entrepreneurs, and benefit consumers.
DLSS 4.5 with Dynamic Multi Frame Generation, announced at CES back in January, draws 23 out of every 24 pixels on screen through that combined pipeline, according to NVIDIA. DLSS 5 is much different in that it alters the image itself.
According to a report from The Maine Wire, the FBI has arrested and charged Terry “Jiajia” Liu, a Customs and Border Protection supervisor based in Calais, Maine, for theft and damage to government property.
Editor’s note: After more than a decade, this is the last WIRED Security News This Week. It was a simple way to highlight our own work and the wealth of other great journalism and research published in this realm every week.
It's made by Insomniac, the studio responsible for the recent Spider-Man titles, which have sold 50 million copies in recent years. But unlike the friendly neighbourhood superhero, Wolverine has a Pegi-18 rating in the UK, meaning a child cannot legally buy the game, and it contains considerable levels of blood, gore…
Donald Trump’s childhood home has sold for nearly $2 million after a renovation transformed the New York City residence from a mold-ridden cat den to a modern abode.
A Grand Theft Auto V mod has added 235 simulated Flock surveillance cameras to Los Santos, giving players a new source of police attention—and something else to blow up.
Institutional money rotated sharply from Bitcoin products into Ethereum on September 11, raising questions about where the smart money is repositioning.
Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed a same-owner requirement for stablecoin transfers that would sharply narrow how customers can move tokens such as USDT through licensed crypto firms.
Revolut disclosed sensitive customer information to an unauthorized third party that submitted fraudulent requests for records from a legitimate government agency email domain, the company told TechCrunch on Saturday.
OpenAI has asked members of Congress whether rival AI companies could legally agree to slow development, as its chief scientist urges the industry to establish shared safety standards.
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I run marketing for GitHub in Japan and Korea, and events are the heartbeat of it: a recurring webinar series for enterprise developers, community meetups in Tokyo, invite-only executive sessions in Seoul. Which topics are worth an hour of their time, and who should be in the room?
OpenAI’s Asia-Pacific director, Kiran Mani, came from India’s largest media and entertainment conglomerate, JioStar, in March. Devanathan’s Meta experience spans consumer platforms, gaming, commerce, business messaging, payments, advertisers, and partnerships.
NASA has released a document that provides some initial details about the proposed United States Space Academy, and it’s clear that the space agency wants to move quickly in establishing the institution.
"Return the bitcoin," Blockstream told those responsible for the Liquid Network exploit on Friday, saying it would not pay a bounty for the remaining 598.5 BTC.
This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s Top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding deal roundup here.
But imagine folding it in half and using the top half as a laptop screen, while the bottom is reserved for a touchscreen keyboard with haptic feedback. Or you could use that folded formation to multitask: Play a YouTube video up top, while juggling between Slack and hand-written notes on the bottom half.
ESMA also raised concerns about insider trading and market manipulation on prediction markets, particularly DLT-based platforms such as Polymarket, where it said limited identity verification and pseudonymous participation can make suspicious activity harder to detect.
While facing threats to its oil exports, Saudi Arabia isn’t getting much support from its own allies. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman called President Donald Trump twice on Thursday, asking for U.S. strikes against the Houthis, but was turned down, .
The act would force the UK Treasury to consult a strategy for the regulation of cryptoassets, stablecoins, tokenized securities and digital financial infrastructure.
A widow of a 9/11 victim used the annual reading of the names of those killed to plead with the Trump administration about Saudi Arabian officials' alleged ties to the terror attack, which the kingdom has dismissed.
The Consumer Price Index rose 0.4% in August, in line with economist forecasts of 0.4% and July’s 0.1% increase. On a year-over-year basis, headline CPI rose 3.4%, versus expectations of 3.4% and July’s 3.4% reading.
The Indian state of Maharashtra is developing a policy to bring its own assets onto blockchain, including a potential tokenization of electricity transmission infrastructure, with proceeds used to fund new power lines and energy storage.
Bitcoin opened Friday at $76,529 and briefly dipped toward the day's $76,040 low in the minutes after the CPI print, an initial hawkish reaction before the market reversed hard. Bulls have since taken over, for now, and BTC climbed as high as $79,837 through the session and now trades near $79,007, a 3.24% gain on the…
Julian Sawyer is stepping down as CEO of Zodia Custody and moving into a strategic-adviser role as the digital-asset custodian prepares to split its operations, according to an internal memo to staff seen by CoinDesk.
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev sharpened his defense of stock tokens late Friday, arguing that public companies should not be able to block third parties from creating blockchain-based products tied to their shares.
Tokenized equities lead RWA inflows as the market recovers; Binance's bStocks hit ~$118.5M in two months, now #2 issuer and ~90% of on-chain equity DEX volume.
“Decrypt’s investigation identified two recurring alignment issues, present at varying levels of severity across the incidents,” Anthropic wrote. It also acknowledged relying too heavily on the model’s claims that they believed they were in simulations.
The paper’s authors include researchers affiliated with Theta Labs, MultiVM Labs, Eigen Labs, Trail of Bits, StarkWare, and the Ethereum Foundation. Researchers designed and tested a quantum circuit that performs a calculation needed to crack Bitcoin’s cryptography, cutting its resource score by 86%.
Crypto exchange OKX is adding markets tied to OpenAI and Anthropic in Europe, joining other crypto exchanges in offering traders a way to speculate on private companies they can’t easily buy shares in.
The global robotaxi market — physical AI’s first commercial breakthrough — is projected to reach $400 billion by 2035, with over 6 million commercial vehicles in operation as driverless fleets are already moving people through some of the world’s busiest and most complex streets.
OpenDesign, the company behind the benchmark site OpenDesign Arena, ran 13 AI models through the same batch of design tasks this week. But DeepSeek's newest model, V4.1 Flash, reached 98% of that top score while charging about 1.4% of the top price.
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Cumulatively, all-in volume on the platform was about $5.3 trillion as of August 2026. Hyperliquid’s orderbook depth, a measure of liquidity, consistently ranks higher for bitcoin than even the large exchanges like Binance, Bybit, OKX and Coinbase.[2] That depth means that it has been cheaper to trade bitcoin on…
“It is unclear why all EU Member States are not included in the list of restricted jurisdictions,” it wrote, citing risks of unauthorized services and breaches of existing retail trading restrictions.
A landmark project to tokenize 250 million pounds ($330 million) in U.K. retail bank deposits was delayed past its initial internal deadline as Monument Bank worked to resolve an institutional custody bottleneck.
ESMA also flagged prediction markets as an emerging risk, warning of heightened concerns around insider trading and market manipulation. ESMA’s warning comes as prediction markets face a growing regulatory battle in the United States over whether event contracts fall under federal derivatives law or state gambling…
Citadel Securities urged the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission to reaffirm SEC oversight of products tied to U.S. public companies and their securities.
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel said he will be interviewing a Democratic candidate for Senate tonight, but the interview will be on YouTube only and not broadcast on TV because of threats made by the Federal Communications Commission.
To monitor the amount and type of nuclear material at power plants and weapons facilities, scientists look for a special signal — the unique pattern of gamma rays emitted by specific radioactive elements.
These will likely be more expensive than Chinese imports, says Isshu Kikuma, an energy storage analyst at BloombergNEF. Technically, the order applies even to existing energy storage plants, though it’s unlikely that they’ll be taken offline because of their batteries’ origin.
The bankruptcy of the cryptocurrency ATM sector’s largest provider has opened the door for smaller firms to snap up their defunct kiosks for pennies on the dollar.
A new version of the Digital Asset Market Clarity offers tweaks to how the key crypto legislation would address activities by decentralized finance firms and some traditional finance firms engaging in crypto activities, but it isn't expected to represent a final compromise that will win sufficient support from Democrats.
Here is an awkward problem for companies that are putting stocks on a blockchain: The onchain data can show who owns the token, but the legal shareholder record sits somewhere else.
Coinbase plans to rebrand the Base App back to Coinbase Wallet, restoring the product’s original name as its focus shifts toward trading across blockchain networks and away from its social-first ambitions.
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Terence Tao, the UCLA professor widely considered the best living pure mathematician, has sounded the alarm over the accelerating AI race in math happening right now.
Read on to learn more about what NVIDIA’s highlighting at the show. Media companies are increasingly integrating AI into live production, sports, news and streaming workflows to unlock richer performance insights, verify video authenticity, and enhance and localize content — all without disrupting trusted broadcast…
People are using Claude for increasingly complex work—writing and running code across entire repositories, synthesizing research from dozens of sources, and managing workflows that span multiple tools and teams.
Where the scan identified a vulnerability, Claude Code could often generate a fix, test it, and build it. In cases where a system lacked the automated tests needed to confirm that a patch was safe, Claude wrote the tests first.
To get a closer look, I decided to unleash one in my own home network. But Will, you might be thinking, giving an impish, all-powerful cybersecurity agent access to your home network is batshit.
Strategy doubled the size of its preferred-stock repurchase program to $2 billion Tuesday as Michael Saylor’s Sept. 8 recovery benchmark arrived with STRC still short of its $100 stated value.
In his 15 years running the company, Tim Cook deployed it only a handful of times, including before his 2014 announcement of the Apple Watch. This is the iPhone Duo, a foldable gadget that opens like a book to reveal a capacious 7.6-inch screen.
Apple announced on Wednesday that the two smartwatches come with four opt-in “audio intelligence” tools that are powered by audio gathered by the watches’ microphones. Seemingly wary that the features could make it feel like the walls have ears, Apple is emphasizing that all of them are built to prioritize privacy and…
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev pushed back against AMC Entertainment CEO Adam Aron, who last week accused the trading platform of creating a “fake market” for AMC shares and threatened to involve the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The Hyperliquid Policy Center accused CME Group, the world’s largest derivatives marketplace, of stifling innovation and urged a court to dismiss the exchange’s lawsuit against the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Tokenized stocks promise cheaper trading and wider access, while some products make speculation easier without passing shareholder rights to the buyer.
“President Trump has unequivocally warned trading partners against imposing digital services taxes, fines, and other forms of extortion on America’s leading technology sector,” Desai said. The communications minister, Anika Wells, downplayed the statement as “broad” and told News24 she had not directly received any…
These maneuvers come as Republican groups have started a massive cash injection to counter a wave of discontent from voters over the Iran war and high prices, and burgeoning Democratic momentum that has opened up the possibility of a Democrat-controlled Senate.
DoubleZero has added Kalshi’s election and political prediction markets to its low-latency data platform, giving institutional and automated traders access to real-time order-book information ahead of the U.S. midterms.
Internet commerce giant PayPal PYPL $ 52.20 · Market Closed extended its blockchain-based stablecoin effort to include a custom stablecoin developer platform, dubbed PYUSDx, built with the help of fiat-pegged token specialist M0 and crypto payments firm MoonPay, the companies said on Tuesday.
Stablecoin issuer Tether is pushing into private credit with Fasanara Capital, putting $400 million behind a new fund that plans to use its USDT token to move money to lenders worldwide.
The new Consensys, meanwhile, will bring together the teams and technologies behind Linea and Ethereum software Besu and Teku, with a focus on infrastructure for banks, asset managers and other institutions.
The former U.S. president's son stated that he wants to use LAPTOP as a symbol of "resilience, redemption, and recovery" against political foes and media that weaponized it. Hunter Biden's laptop became one of the biggest political controversies of the 2020 presidential election after he left it at a Delaware repair…
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